As anyone can tell by the date of my last post, I haven’t had much time to paint and if I do I haven’t had time to update this blog with anything I’ve done with the last year. I have been working in pencil a lot and Tim Gagnon has started a sketchbook challenge, which you can find here. So, I thought I’d give it a go. Here are my first two:

Here is my attempt at sketching and outlining the second bird in my lesson.

A wash of my version of burnt sienna is applied to the background. After a couple hours of layering the paint here is my result. Life has taken over my time and I hope to be able to finish the background this week.

You can get an idea of that the birds are to look like and how the lesson looks by viewing Tim’s youtube channel.

Damyanti Biswas is an author, blogger, animal-lover, spiritualist. Her work is represented by Ed Wilson from the Johnson & Alcock agency. When not pottering about with her plants or her aquariums, you can find her nose deep in a book, or baking up a storm.